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LEVEE BREAKS, FLOOD ROARS THROUGH TOWN Residents of Mississippi Village Flee Before Rush of Waters. STORM LASHES COAST Four States Are Deluged, Ships Periled, Plane Traffic Halted. Jt <j 1 1 nilrd Press GLENDORA, Miss., Dec. 28.—A twenty-foot break in the main levee of the Tallahatchie river today sent flood waters four feet deep over the business district of this cotton belt town. Residents, warned of the break by the clanging of the fire bell, scurried over the Zazoo Ac Mississippi Valley railroad to the residential section, which is built behind a second line of stronger levees. Merchants had prepared for the flood by removing their merchandise to their homes or to the top of the railroad levee. Few in town were preparing to evacuate. The nearest relief camps were many miles away, attainable only over the railroad or by boat. Convicts from the Parchman state prison camp, who had toiled with citizens to strengthen the levee since Christmas day, left Glendora for the prison several hours before the break, because engineers had believed the waters were receding. Two hundrd Negro prisoners were dispatched back here to aid in reconstructing the levee. Storm Lashes Four States Jiy United Press SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 28.—A driving wind and rainstorm swept out of the north Pacific today bringing snows to mountain regions, shattering weather records of twenty years, and threatening floods to lowlands. The storm spent its fury across four states, lashing coast points with heavy gales, blocking transportation, and swelling rivers near to flood levels. Forecasts of lighter rainfall today and Tuesday indicated the worst of the storm was over. The storm descended on Washington, Oregon, California and Nevada, whipped by a fifty-six-mile gale. Ships turned into the wind and prepared to ride it out. Many were behind schedule. Airliners remained in their hangars and automobile traffic was almost at a standstill. The Sacramento river burst its banks at Chico, Cal., flooding a highway under a half foot of wgter. Kcnnctt, at the head of the fiver, received 9.88 inches of rain in twen-ty-nine hours. 2,000 Work to Halt Flood In Santa Cruz, Cal., struck by almost nine inches of rain, 2,000 men worked to prevent further damage from heavy ocean breakers and rising creeks, which carried away.part of a casino. Eight cabins at Soquel were washed away and streets were flooded. A series of ten lakes, each more than half a mile long, surrounded Oakland. More than forty homes, some in fashionable districts, were threatened. Fire departments were deluged with calls for pumps. Pajaro, across the Pajaro river from Watsonville, Cal., was endangered when the stream and Salsipuedes creek overflowed. Dairyman Is MissingOtto Bronck, 65, dairy farm employe who refused to leave his cabin when the Napa river began rising, was missing today. His cabin had been carried away. Edward J. Mackey. 18, Alameda, Cal., was treated in a Nevada City, Cal., hospital for freezing after losing his way in a blizzard. Thirteen feet of snow was reported at Nerden, near Donner summit in the Sierra Nevada mountains, the deepest in twenty years. San Francisco received 11.24 inches of rain for the season to date, as compared with 2.64 inches this time last year. Golf in Midwest By United Press CHICAGO, Dec. 28.—Golf appeared today to be likely to remain the favorite outdoor sport of most of the midwest until the advent of the new year, at least. The springlike temperatures which have kept links well filled, with only a few interruptions, for weeks after the accustomed close of the season, continued. In Chicago more than 10,000 players made the rounds of their favorite courses at a time when the calendar showed the fairways should be covered with traditional snow banks. Farmers in the central states reported their pastures almost as green as in summer. The ground is unfrozen and ready for cultivation. The United States weather bureau reported generally fair mild weather throughout the country except for the north Atlantic states, where normal winter temperatures prevailed and the Pacific coast, where a storm was in progress. No indication was given as to when the warm spell would end. Even Medicine Hat, Alberta, tor years circled on forecasters’ maps with red as the “icebox" of North America, reported a balmy 44 degrees above zero. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 38 10 a. m 38 7a. m 37 11 a. m 40 Ba. m 36 12 (noon).. 43 a. m 36 1 p. m 45

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SNELL ASSAILS STAND ON TAX Hoover Proposal Defended Against Democrats. By United Press WASHINGGTON, Dec. 28.—A Republican defense against Democratic attacks upon the administration's tax proposal was made today by Representative Bertrand H. Snell of New York, minority floor leader in the house. Snell argued that wealth, which Henry T. Rainey, Democratic floor leader, said should bear the chief burden of taxes, would bear the major part of retroactive taxes. He said also that all recent tax reductions have applied retroactively. The Republican leader praised Democrats for their co-operation in President Hoover’s financial relief program, and promised that Republicans would go as far as the Democrats in reducing government expenditures, a cardinal point of Rainey’s program. “I certainly appreciate the fact that Democrats have co-operated thus far in the President’s reconstruction program and I expect they will continue to co-operate until it is completed,” Snell said. HOOVER HONORS WILSON Sends Wreath to Tomb, Marking 75th Birthday of War Leader. By United Press WASHINGTON. Dec. 28.—Commemoraitng the seventy-fifth anniversary of the birth of Woodrow Wilson, President Hoover today sent a wreath to be placed on the tomb of the war president, at Washington cathedral. Seize Communists in Chile By United rress SANTIAGO, Chile, Dec. 28. Twenty-two Communists had been arrested today for participation in the attack on garrisons in the copper region at Copiapo and other towns. The alleged ringleaders of the uprising, Pablo Reyes and Antonio Gil, were still at large.

Volcano on Air By United Press NEW YORK. Dec. 1 28.—Aweinspiring rumblings of a great volcano in eruption and a description of its subterranean fire burning through the lake of molten lava will be “put on the air” today for the first time when a microphone is lowered into the crater of Kilauea, Hawaii. A coast-to-coast hookup of the National Broadcasting Company will carry the novel broadcast to amazed listeners, at 3:15, central standard time. The program will last half an hour. Thomas A. Jaggar. noted volcanologist who has spent years studying Kilauea, one of the world’s largest and most spectacular volcanoes, will stand on the crater’s rim and give the “play by play” account of the eruption. He will describe for the listeners the forty-eight-acre sea of fire with its molten lava bubbling like a gigantic witch’s cauldron, tongues of flame bursting through the surface.

FORD’S DEPRESSION VIEWS BERATED BY ECONOMIST

By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—S. M. Levin, Detroit City college economist, attacked activities of Henry Ford during the depression, in a paper read today before a group of economists and sociologists meeting here. Ford, according to Levin's paper, met the problem of depression with "a turgid flood” of words ' abounding in moral exhortations and noble ideals,” but lacking in deeds. Levin said Ford failed to cooperate with local charities in Detroit or to give aid to former employes in need.

Former Attorney-General to Break Years’ Silence on Scandals. By United Press COLUMBUS, 0., Dec. 28 —Harry M. Daugherty, United States attor-ney-general under the late President Warren G. Harding, today announced he was “breaking a silence of eight years” in a book published under the title, “The Inside Story of the Harding Tragedy.” Daugherty made answer to what he called ‘t‘he clamor of fools and chuckle over vicious slander” in the volume, which is to be brought out by the Churchill company, New York, within a few weeks. Daugherty to "Tell All” In a statement, accompaying his announcement, Daugherty said he had told a “truthful, objective story” of: The part, he played in nominating Mr. Harding. The real relationship between the late President and Mrs. Harding. The oil scandals. The President’s death. The so-called “Ohio gang.” The book was written in collaboration with Thomas Dixon, wellknown author. Assails Hoover Statement Daugherty spoke bitterly of a statement by President Hoover at dedication of the Harding memorial at Marion, 0., which charged Harding “had been betrayed” by his friends. Mr. Hoover had said the guilt of these "friends” later was proved in the courts. “No charge against me ever was proved,” Daugherty declared. “Mr. Hoover, of course, did not apply his words to me.” Daugherty entered virtual retirement in an austere brick house on a fashionable drive here following his resignation from the cabinet at the request of President Coolidge. Answers Paternity Charges He said President Hoover was “entitled to and would receive” a renomination next June. His book will devote much space to an answer to recent volumes which he said charged Mr. Harding was father of an illegitimate child, and that his death .was brought about by Mrs. Harding. Authors of the books, he said, were “money-hungry wolves and jackals.” CAPONE GETS SHOCK Ineligible to Parole While Plot Indictment Stands. By United Press CHICAGO, Dec. 28. —A more severe penalty may be inflicted upon A1 Capone, convicted income tax evader, by failure to bring him to trial on prohibition conspiracy charges than if he stood trial, United States District Attorney George E. Q. Johnson said today, Capone was indicted with sixtyeight others on the conspiracy charges. The others are expected to go on trial next month. Johnson pointed out that Capone, now in jail awaiting appeal of his conviction, would not be eligible for parole as long as the conspiracy indictment stands. SPEED UP AIR SERVICE New Schedules Effective Jan. 1 on T. & W. A. Line. New schedules expected to result in faster air mail service from coast to coast, and increased poundage, will become effective Jan. 1 on ships of Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc., it was announced today. The company has agreed with the postoffice department to provide space for 750 pounds of mail on each of its passenger planes, approximately twice the space now provided. Details of the new arrangement and schedules have not been made public. The service will require only twenty-four hours for mail to travel from coast to coast. PAPAL MASS ON AIR Ceremony by Pope at St. Peter’s Broadcast to World. By United Press VATICAN CITY. Dec. 28.—The low mass ceremony, at which Pope Pius XI officiated Sunday at St. Peter’s, including a Te Deum and a benediction, was broadcast throughout the world by the Vatican City radio station for the first time. More than 30,000 persons attended the services, at which the pepe celebrated the mass in connection with his latest encyclical and the celebration of the fifteenth centenary of the Council of Ephesus.

While Ford has said that charity “is humiliation pure and simple,” and "should be as unnecessary as it is unnatural,” Levin continued: “Hosts of Ford workers are denizens of public soup kitchens and lodging houses, and thousands of others have been reduced to skimpy allowances of public and private charities. “Many part-time workers, not to mention those laid off and discharged. have not received enough wages to live on, though the profits of the Ford Motor Company for 1930 were equivalent to $257.52 a share on 172,645 shares of stock owned by the Ford family.”

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JAPAN HURLS DEFIANCE AT BIG POWERS Peace Treaties Are Tossed Into Discard in Notes Sent From Tokio. WAR TO BE PRESSED All Manchuria Must Come Under Nippon Rule, U. S. Is Informed. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scrioos-Howard Foreien Editor WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—Events in the Far East took a sinister turn over the week-end and added to anxiety here. Japans reply to this country, Great Britain and France, in effect, was that until China accepts Japanese control over all Manchuria the “war” will go on, pledges and peace treaties to the contrary. Simultaneously from China comes word that two of her ablest generals, Feng Yu-Hsiang and Yen Hsi-Shan, blood-brothers, are urging the Nanking government to rush troops to the defense of Chinchow, last stronghold of the Chinese in Manchuria. Japan s defiance of the League of Nations, the nine-power treaty powers and the states signatory to the Kellogg pact, coupled with increasing demands in China that "undeclared war” be waged against the Japanese, have added to the growing apprehension here. Must “Clear” Manchuria In her reply to the American, British and French expressions of anxiety over continued hostilities in Manchuria, Japan becomes almost naive. When she smashed the Chinese government of Manchuria on °2pt. 18, she declares in substance, the Chinese would not play the game. Instead of staying on and helping Japan set up anew, pro-Japanese regime the better elements ran away or refused to co-operate. Accordingly, “against Japan’s wishes,” she now finds herself saddled with certain responsibilities. She must restore order. Secondly, Japan continues, there is a lot of “banditry” in the country. This is getting worse instead of better. For the “bandits” are encouraged by the Chinchow remnant of the old Chang Hsueh-Liang regime—which the Japanese drove from Mukden—so the fighting will have to go on until all Manchuria is cleared of these undesirables. Blame Put on China All this “bad faith” on the part of the Chinese, therefore, makes it imperative for Nippon to mop up Manchuria for herself. According to military circles here, the “bandits” complained of are nothing more than the homeless, roving remnants of the Manchurian army which the Japanese themselves smashed last September and October. It is apparent, therefore, that most of the ’banditry” in Manchuria is of Japanese creation The danger of a clash over Chinchow, in the southwestern corner of Manchuria, now is feared more than ever. The Japanese note indicates they will take it, unless the Chinese surrender and retire south of the great wall. The Chinese, on the other hand, assert they will suffer death rather than the humiliation of being ordered out of their own country by invading aliens. Washington and the council of the League of Nations thus are being forced closer and closer to a grave decision. Up to the present they have said the Chinsee had a perfect right to remain in Chinchow. And they obtained Japan’s promise not to attack. If the Japanese do attack Chinchow, and drive out, or slaughter, the Chinese garrison, Washington and the league council either will have to go much farther than they yet have dared to go with Japan, else back down and acknowledge defeat, both for their diplomacy and for their peace machinery. Chinese Name Leader By United Press NANKING, China, Dec. 28.—Lin Sen, veteran Chinese statesman and head of the legislative yuan in the last nationalist government, today was elected chairman of the national government to succeed General Chiang Kai-Shek. Lin Sen received his education in China and America and lived in California for many years.

Monks Called to Arms for War on Japanese ICoDvrieht. 1931. bv United Presst NANKING, Dec. 28.—An army of at least 200,000 Chinese Buddhist monks was expected today to answer a call to abandon their monasteries and take up arms against Japan. The chief Chinese abbots issued a circular telegram to monks throughout the country, estimated to number 800,000, appealing to them to join an army ft>r protection of Chinese interests. At least one-fourth of the monks were expected to agree. Affect mobilization of monks may have on the Chinese is problematical. The hold of Buddhism on the people of China is restricted mainly to beliefs and ceremonies connected -with death and burial. It bears little resemblance to the religion in its purer form, and hardly is distinguishable from Taoism. Buddhism was introduced in China from India in the first century of the present era. Asa religion it does not exert an influence at all comparable to Confucianism. Tibet is now the center of the Buddhist world, where huge monasteries contain as many as 10,000 lamas. Lamaism has swallowed most of the purer ethics of Buddhism and developed a system of priestcraft which has considerable influence on the country. The Dalai Lama, the supreme pontiff of Buddhism, and the Tashi Lama share the spiritual and temporal government of Tibet.

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Newton D. Baker, sneaker tonight at Woodiow r Wilson dinner in Winchester.

NEWTON BAKER IN STATE TODAY War Secretary to Speak at Dinner in Winchester. More than 2,000 Indiana Democratic leaders and workers were traveling from all sections of the state to Winchester today to hear Newton D. Baker, Democratic presidential possibility, deliver an eulogy on the war-time President, at the annual Woodrow Wilson dinner there. The former secretary of war left Cleveland this morning and is expected to return Tuesday. Dispatches from that city today declared that Baker’s silence regarding his political intentions is a passive acquiescence to the “draft” plan of his friends, according to former Congressman Martin Davey, chief Baker sponsor in Ohio. It has been learned that the two conferred recently regarding the situation. Reaction of his Indiana visit and address will be watched closely over the nation. Charles Wall, Randolph county chairman, is in charge of the dinner arrangements. OIL COMPANIES UNITE TO FIGHT ‘LEGGERS’ Organize Committees to Combat Gas Tax Evasions. By United Press CLEVELAND, Dec. 28—The organized oil industry today declared war on gasoline “bootleggers” who are estimated to earn $50,000,000 annually through evasion of state gasoline tax laws. Local and interstate committees will be organized to combat the activities of this new racket, announced W, T. Holliday, president of the Standard Oil Company of Ohio, and vice-president ox the American Petroleum Institute, in charge of the marketing division. The new type of bootleggers derives enormous revenues, Holliday said, by abusing refpnd and exemption privileges, adulterating motor fuel with nontaxable products, trucking across state lines, diverting ostensible out-of-state shipments to same state and through false bills of lading, false tax returns and “dummy” sales corporations. POSE WITH PRESIDENT Football Team, Glee Club and Boy Scouts Photographed. By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 28—President Hoover posed for photographs today with several groups of holiday callers. One was with the University of Califou.ia football team, another with scout troop No. 166 from Kingston, Pa., and a third with the Oberlin college glee club.

Struck Down With Pliers When She' Resents Thugs’ Advances. Injured, probably fatally, Mrs. Ethel Kitts, 40, is in city hospital, thrice a tragedy victim today. Two Negroes in a truck this morning followed Mrs. Kitts and a friend, driving in Mrs. Kitts’ automobile, annoying them. The women's car was forced to the curb. Angered, when Mrs. Kitts attempted to flee from her auto, one of the Negroes beat her with a heavy pair of pliers. Breaking away, Mrs. Kitts ran into the street and was struck by another automobile, suffering internal injuries and a broken leg. Guard Against Violence Police took precaution against probable mob violence at the scene of the accident, Eighteenth street and Roosevelt avenue, after several persons in a crowd there threatened the Negroes as they were returned to the scene by captors. The prisoners were spirited through a rear door at engine house No. 2, at 1575 Roosevelt avenue, after being questioned by police and firemen. As Mrs. Kitts fights for her life, her infant child, police were {old. is near death. As she lay injured in the street, she pleaded incoherently with her friend to “take care of my baby.” Mrs. Kitts, whose home is at 1350 Commerce avenue, was beaten, according to police, when she and Mrs. Alice Smith of Eighteenth street and Shadeland avenue resisted the two Negroes when their car was forced to the curb. Threatens to Call Police Although officers had difficulty in piecing together the story of the alleged attack, they believed the Negroes, driving a truck, forced Mrs. Kitts to halt her car at the curb, when she threatened to call police, after the two women had been annoyed. The Negroes, witnesses said, had been following her as she drove toward school No. 55, at 1657 Sheldon street, w’here her husband is janitor. Witnesses said Mrs. Kitts leaped from the automobile after she was forced to halt. The Negro grabbed her as she reached the sidewalk and struck her with the pliers, police were told. With a severe gash over her left eye, she ran frantically into the street, where a car driven by Perry Jarvis, 22, of 1505 Rhinehurst street, struck her, knocking her to the pavement. The Negroes, meanwhile, leaped into the truck and sped away. Seeing the alleged attack, M. C. Whittle, 1475 Roosevelt avenue, commandered a car driven by Irvin (Turn to Page Two)

Blind Rage By United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 28.—Burt Overly, blinded in an accident in Elkhart, Ind., in 1903, walked along Fifty-seventh street, and thought he heard someone ridicule him, so he swung his cane. Overly was charged with felonious assault, and Frank Neil’s nose was dressed by the ambulance surgeon. “I just coughed,” Neil explained.

GRILL KIDNAP SUSPECT Cops Fail to Shake Woman’s Story In Donnelly Probe. By United Press BLOOMSBURG, Pa.. Dec. 28. Continued questioning of Mrs. Ethel DePew, wife of Marshall DePew, alleged leader of the band that kidnaped Mrs. Nell O. Donnelly, Kansas City manufacturer, today failed to break her story. Mrs. DePew reiterated her innocense and maintained her husband deserted her in Buffalo, N. Y., and presumably was hiding in Canada. BUILDING WORiTIS - LET Shell Petroleum Plans Warehouse, Pumphouse, Storage Tanks. Contract for construction of a warehouse, pumphouse and additional tanks, was let today to the Krebay Construction Company by the Shell Petroleum Company. The work is expected to cost approximately $35,000. Construction will begin Tuesday and will continue for about a month, according to Thorwald Anda, divisional manager of the Shell company.

GROUP TO DRAFT PLANS FOR ACQUIRING GAS CO.

General plans for financing and managing the transfer of the Citizens Gas Company to the city will be considered by Mayor Reginald H. Sullivan and his natural gas committee Tuesday afternoon. This will be the first gathering of the committee since Marion county court records were cleared of litigation blocking the transfer. Members of the committee, headed by Henry L. Dithmer, chairman, will meet in the mayor’s office with directors of the utility district, under whose auspices the gas company will be operated, if transferred to the city^

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GRIM PICTURE OF WANT IS PAINTED IN PLEAS FOR U. S. AID TO JOBLESS MILLIONS

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Senator E. P. Costigan, who demands federal aid for jobless.

AIR FARES CUT NEAR 8. R. COST Travel Rates to 137 Cities Sliced by Plane Lines. By United Press CHICAGO, Dec. 28.—Drastic reductions bringing plane rates directly into competition with rail fares were announced today by the United Air Lines, effective Jan. 1. Travel by air is made as cheap, or cheaper, than by Pullman through the price cut, which affects travel to 137 cities. The announcement said fares would be cut as much as 28 per cent in some instances and that roundtrip fares would be reduced 10 per cent. The reductions apply to travel over all branches of the air transportation system from coast to coast. The New York-Chicago fare is cut to $47.95 from $59.50. The reduction brings the cost of air travel between the two cities somewhat lower than by first-class rail ticket. Other reductions announced include Boston to the Pacific coast, reduced from $215.93 to $175.98; Chicago to Pacific coast, $l5O to $115; Chicago to Cleveland, $19.75 to $15.95, and Cleveland to New York, $39.75 to $32 (round trip). The new fare from Indianapolis to San Francisco, going from Indianapolis to Chicago on the Em-bry-Riddle division, American Airways, will be $126, the former price being $166.

AWAIT COMMANDS Local Dry Agents Have No New Year’s Orders. Federal prohibition officers here have not yet received orders to make an attempt to steam or curtail any of the predicted New Year’s eve hilarity, according to Bailey Bennett, in charge of the prohibition bureau in the absence of Charles P. Britt, bureau administrator. Bennett today said orders from Washington may arrive Tuesday or Wednesday, and added that unless an edict is forthcoming he can make no advance plans.

True to Oath By United Press NEW YORK, Dec. 28.—Dr. Edward Mandell was called from an operating room at Concourse sanitarium for a frightfully important message.” Fire had spread to their home, Mrs. Mandell informed him. Dr. Mandell was true to his physician’s oath. “Yes, yes, but tell me about it later,” he responded. Then he ushered in the eight-pound daughter of Mrs. Emma Stern. The home was badly damaged.

Litigation in the suit of Allen G. Williams, brought by Attorney William V. Rooker, still is pending in form of an appeal from Superior Judge Clarence E Weir’s decision, throwing the case out of court. Legal advisers of the gas committee, however, have decided this appeal need not delay further a definite consideration of problems affecting transfer to the city, under the public charitable trust agreement of 1905. Whether natural gas can be mixed with the manufactured product is one of the important problems to be solved by the committee.

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Charity Leaders Tell Senate Group That Need Is Greatest in History. COSTIGAN LEADS FIGHT Agencies of Relief Have Broken Down, Declares Colorado Senator. BY LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.—Federal aid in caring for the unemployed was demanded at the senate committee hearing on relief measures today. Samuel A. Goldsmith, executive director of the Jewish Charities of New' York, estimated that between $600,000,000 and $700,000,000 w’as required for relief this year. He said that normally $75,000,000 was raised for charity in the nation. “You can see,” he said, “how' little private charity can do. We must have federal help.” Senator Costigan (Dem., Colo.) contended that existing “agencies of relief have broken down” and that “nothing short of federal relief can satisfy the conscience of America.” Give Gloomy Pictures William Hodson, executive director of the social welfare council, and Goldsmith gave gloomy descriptions of the situations in New York and Chicago, particularly the latter. Goidsmith said that 97,000 families in Chicago are being cared for. They are receiving 25 per cent less than the theoretical minimum requirement of $2 a week for an adult and $1.50 a week for a child. Yet, he said, by Feb. 15 Chicago will have exhausted its relief funds. He estimated that a total of 1,100,000 people were out of work in Chicago on Oct. 1. Hodson characterized the situation as the “mast serious human problem our country ever faced.” He said that the number out of work in New York was five times the normal figure. Goidsmith estimated that in 3.300.000 families in the United States the wage-earning members are unemployed. Illness, Insanity Increase “Sickness and insanity are increasing,” he said, speaking of Chicago, “and the health in the public schools is threatened with elimination by the deplorable condition of our finances. “The Cook county board of public welfare has not paid its milk bill in two years and it is far behind on its clothing and coal bills.” Costigan said that “immeasurable distress and the need for relief” had been obvious when he conducted an investigation in November. "Nothing short of federal relief can satisfy the conscience of America,” he continued, “and long-estab-lished agencies of relief have broken down.” He said existing relief provisions were “gravely Inadequate.” “The objection to a ‘dole’ should be squarely met. Americans should not starve while we quibble over words.” Money Is Lacking Hodson said New York City W'ould spend $45,000,000 for emergency relief this winter. Costigan asked if that would be enough. “The money in sight is not adequate,” Hodson said, although he did “not believe any one would starve to death in New York City.” “An allowance of S6O a month for a family of five is much less than the recognized minimum for a family of that size, and is vastly inadequate,” he said. Senator La Follette (Rep., Wis.) asked about the depression's effect on public health in New York. "There is some malnutrition and disease from unemployment, but the mortality statistics do not reveal anything startling,” Hods' n replied. He said relief in New York City was on a “disaster basis,” and aid to individuals “had to be curtailed because the money available was not adequate to meet the need.” Fight to Be Bitter The congressional struggle over the relief fund issue promises to be as sharp as any during this long session. Although the composition of the senate subcommittee suggests it will most certainly vote to report favorably some form of federal relief, the advantage in congress as a whole appears to lie with Mr. Hoover and his power of veto. The bills were introduced by Senators La Follette (Rep., Wis.) and Costigan (Dem., Colo.) Costigan’s for $375,000,000, would make $125,000,000 available for relief In the fiscal year ending June 30, 1932, and allot the remainder in the ensuing twelve months. Both bills would set up federal boards of unemployment relief. These boards would allocate relief funds to the states, on condition that each state establish relief boards meeting specified standards. These state boards, in turn, would distribute funds through county, municipal and other regional relief agencies. ACQUITTAL IS DIRECTED Judge Charges Jury to Free Two “Baby Massacre” Suspects. By United Press NEW’ YORK, Dec. 28.—Judge Joseph E. Corrigan directed a general session court jury trying Vincent Coll and Frank Giordano in connection with the Harlem “baby massacre” to bring in a verdict of "not guilty” today.

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